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This morning I had to come to terms with the fact that I need to keep my act together, no more having a cocktail every evening or running out for froyo or ice cream just to get out of the house. All sins I committed last week :-\ And lots of weeks before that. The last few days, I was finally over my big gluten mistake, so I was hard on myself and got myself back on track — I had under 50g of carbs each day. I’m now down 11.4lbs overall!

I do know I’ve come across a whole bunch of things that are going on the shopping list for Monday’s bulk food buy. I think I might make this a regular thing to blog the stuff that’s been catching my eye? We’ll see 🙂

Berry Almond Kale Granola… OMG! I’ve had something like this in the back of my mind since Paleo People Granola seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Even better, I can make this myself! I’ve had a dehydrator for a few Christmases now, it’s time to break that puppy out!

I’ve craved shrimp ever since Jeff started talking about his upcoming fishing trip and how they’re going to hit Joe’s Crab Shack afterwards. Maybe us ladies will have an even better meal back at home! Plus Jeff wont eat cilantro, and I love anything citrus…

I love green beans. Always have! And for a while, I thought I needed to avoid them like the plague, because they’re beans. Beans aren’t paleo, right? Well, because you eat green beans fresh — not dried — and they’re more pulp? than bean, you’re A-OK. Don’t believe me? Google it. Or just read this great article. Anyway, back on topic — I have to make this. I’m seriously addicted to anything with capers! The only things I would change is that I would roast this in the oven and add in some slivered almonds 🙂 I’m thinking this is going on the Thanksgiving menu!

When I first introduced Jeff to Mark’s Daily Apple, I got a text message asking me to make these little breakfast meat loaves. We LOVE hard-boiled eggs and breakfast sausage (we even make our own breakfast sausage) so I can’t believe I haven’t made these yet! I would probably just soft boil the eggs before baking, to help prevent the yolk from getting too chalky.

I’ve also been craving cinnamon lately. Fall isn’t even beginning to show its face (and it wont until the end of September) but I’m already in the mindset of candles, cinnamon, cider, leaves… I have a problem. I hate summer here, but absolutely love the cold Fall & Winter. ANYWAY, these little cinnamon apple bites are low in carbs! They’ve been on my list for forever, but I have yet to stock the pantry with the coconut items needed to make them.

Another one from PaleOMG — Turkey Basil Artichoke Meatballs. YUM! I love artichokes even more than I love capers! These would be great with some zucchini “pasta” — which I have yet to try since my garden this summer was a complete fail.

Jeff LOVES frittatas, and what could be better than a Fajita Frittata? I might try making this in muffin tins, easier for leftovers and Jeff also loves the novelty of muffin tin frittatas. If you make fajitas the night before, you could use the leftovers to make this!

That’s it for now — I’m making myself too hungry. I can’t wait until our bulk shopping trip on Monday… I’m going crazy at home with the limited options we have left! At least we have enough for a large batch of paleo chili tonight 🙂

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This morning was a crazy one on hour urban homestead! Jeff and I had a long to-do list, but instead found ourselves stuck at home with me dealing with a potential kidney stone. Around ten, I dragged myself outside to make sure the girls were doing fine and didn’t need anything. They were all being very loud and cackling, which I just wrote off as them being upset at all the neighborhood revelry lately for New Year’s.

Sure enough, they had emptied their waterer again and kicked their coop feeder out into the run. While I was rearranging things inside the coop, I noticed this weird object half buried in the pine shavings outside of the nesting boxes… a teeny tiny egg!!!

Baby laid her first egg!!! It was covered in this white stuff — according to BYC it’s probably just excess calcium. I only had my iPhone with me to grab a quick photo of Baby with her egg (don’t worry, my phone got a good cleaning with 409 after the photo shoot!)

All morning & early afternoon, I had to keep going outside to quiet the girls down. At one point I noticed Selma was also laying, so I was excited that we’ll finally be getting more than one egg a day since Patty & Selma alternate days. Well, I was mistaken… not only did Selma lay an egg today, but Patty did too!!! Two huge milestones today — Baby’s First Egg, and the first day all three laid an egg!!!

I’m hoping Baby will give us a double yolker, since her sisters never laid any when they were getting their start.

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Almost two weeks ago, we got our first warm spherical surprise in the chicken run! Selma had acted strange all day on the 13th, making weird yipping and grumbling sounds — just like a dog! When I would play the recordings to Jeff and others — they thought the noises came from a dog!

Around 4pm I went out to pick up my mother in law, while we were driving back I told her all about Selma’s weird behavior. We were excited to check on the chickens when we got back home, but we weren’t expecting what we found! Sometime in the 20 minutes where I was gone, Selma laid an egg in the middle of the chicken run!

On the 15th, we woke up to Patty singing a ton of egg songs and scratching around in the coop. She began to make a nest under her favorite spot on the roost! This time Selma was curious about her sister’s strange behavior and would not leave Patty alone!!! Selma was right up on the roost staring down at her sister the entire time! Sometime before 10am Patty was back out in the run and strutting her stuff, bragging up a storm! Sure enough a little egg was waiting for us in the coop!

Selma’s first egg was small and speckled. Patty’s was completely smooth and single colored, no speckles! Over the next week the two of them continued to make a TON of noise while they discovered this new meaning to their lives. Fortunately, one week after they started laying, they got over the novelty of egg laying and only make some noises to let us know to go check the coop. Both are laying in the same nesting box now, right by my access door! We’ve gotten an egg every day, I think they both lay every other day. Patty laid her second egg the day after her first! That was surprising! No double yolkers so far, but the eggs are slowly getting larger to the size of regular to large grocery store eggs.

Baby is still too young to start laying, but she has got in the nesting boxes and rearranging my fake wooden eggs for me. She’s finally filling out, but I still have no idea if she’ll start laying this fall or wait until the spring.

We’re still buying eggs in the store — but it’s baking season! I hope once Baby starts to lay we wont need to supplement with store-bought eggs.

I’m loving this new adventure in chicken ownership! I’ll be sure to share some of my favorite eggy recipes soon 🙂

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Hey all! Welcome to Our Misadventures, which is a mix of my personal and business blog. I'm Meg, I'm a full-time social media strategist with a passion for lifting up small businesses and entrepreneurs.

I'm an adventure and travel addict, married to my best friend (cliché but true,) I love good tea all throughout the day – and sometimes relax with a good book. I'm a huge advocate of primal eating & living, and a slave to two small puppy dogs and two round guinea pigs.